About Terry
Dr. Terry Sheridan has led a remarkable life.
Born in Portsmouth England in 1950, she was placed up for adoption at four months old and went to an array of schools while her adoptive father was in the Royal Air Force.
The trauma from her adoption would only be fully recognised by her later in her life after she was diagnosed with PTSD and embarked on a difficult healing journey confronting self-loathing and other negative emotions.
This path has become life-long and is the seed from which her acclaimed Vapourise Technique therapy has sprung.
She boarded during her secondary education before finishing highly at Portsmouth South Grammar.
After working at various jobs, she was guided toward the social sciences and completed an Honours degree in Social Administration and worked as a social worker In Leicester and Toronto.
She then worked in adolescent mental health and juvenile diversion projects, undertaking research and evaluations for serious juvenile offenders with life long prison sentences.
Her work with adolescents diagnosed with clinical psychopathy helped her create tailored support programs and later underpinned her interest and research in workplace fraud mitigation and her pioneering managerial fraud model used by organisations to successfully screen prospective employees.
She lived in Australia for a number of years as business director for one of the country’s largest superannuation funds and was a finalist in the Australian Telstra Business Women's Awards program, after creating her own consulting firm, Guardian Angel People.
She also founded several small businesses while in the country and researched the unique challenges faced by female managers in the workforce.
While helping executive managers find work, she developed her Vapourise Technique method, a tool that offers emotional well-being by transforming negative inner states into positive ones.
She has held seminars on the technique in London and was invited by the Singaporean Ministry of Defense to assist their non-commission officers into entry into the workplace.
She also developed a local charity in Bali, where she lived and worked for a time and is now based in the south of France, but continues to travel broadly, promoting her work in the US, Europe, Canada and China.
Terry completed her PhD at Curtin University and is the author of three books: Managerial Fraud: Executive Impression Management, Beyond Red Flags, Malevolent Managers: Insights using Executive Impression Management and The Respectful Manager: The Guide to Successful Management.
Having lived on four continents and in countries like Pakistan and Turkey and Indonesia, Dr. Sheridan’s work is respectful of all religions and cultures and indeed she believes her extraordinary work transcends such boundaries.
Her unique lived experiences in disparate workplaces and communities enable her to shift both workplace and social environments in a distinctly positive way and she believes that society should ultimately return to living in peaceful and harmonious groups, like we did in ancient times.
She is a grandmother and presently lives between Australia and a medieval town in France with her beloved dogs and cats.
Terry remains a qualified, albeit lapsed member of Mensa International.
